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| fantasy | a story that concerns an unreal world or contains unreal characters |
| Figurative language | language employing one or more figures of speach |
| flashback | the intersectionof an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narative |
| flat character | a character who embodies a single quality and who dose not develope in the course of the story |
| foreshadowing | the presentation of material in such a way that the reader is prepared for what is to come later in the work |
| frame device | a story within a story |
| genere | a major categlory of type of literature |
| homily | a sermon, or a moralistic lecture |
| hubris | excessive pride of arrogence that results in the downfall or the protagonist of a tragedy |
| hyperbole | intentional exaggeration to create an effect |
| Hypothetical Question | a question that raises a hypothesis, conjecture, or supposition |
| idion | an espression in a given languange that cannot be understood from a literal meaning of the words in the expression; or a regional speech or dialect |
| imagery | the use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses |
| implication | a suggestion an author or speaker makes (implies) without stating it directly. NOTE: the author/sender implies; the reader/audience infers |
| inductive reasoning | deriving general principles from particular facts or instances |
| inference | a conclusion one draws (infers) dased on premises or evidence |
| invective | an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attacks |
| irony | the use of words to convey the opposite of thier literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs |
| jargon | the specialized languange or vocabulary of a particular group or profession |
| juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparision or contrast |
| legend | a narative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements |
| limited narrator | a narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character and restricts information to what is seen, heard, thought, or felt by that one character |
| literary license | deviating from normal rules or methods in order to achive a certain effect (intentional sentence fragments, for example) |
| litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite (describing a particulary horrific scene by saying "it was not a pretty picture" |
| limerick | light verse consisting of five lines of regular rhythm in which the first, second, and fifth lines (each consisting of three feet) rhyme, and the second and third lines (each consisting of two feet) rhyme |
